Middle-aged TV critics might not be the target market for G4tech TV, the video-gaming channel, but that doesn't mean we can't learn something.

This morning we learned about "drifting," a form of racing that G4 exec Peter Green describes as "figure skating with cars."

Except, you know, you don't need a license to skate.

Not that the lack of a license stopped Ken Gushi, now all of 18, from becoming a rising star in the fledgling sport, which G4 is trying to make its own little NASCAR in the show "Formula D."

He started driving at 8, moving customers' cars around the lot at his father's auto-repair business, graduated to "drifting" at 13 and owned his first car at 15.

Not even pretending to be cool, I asked him where his mother was when he was up to all this.

His family, he insisted, had been totally supportive.

Even when his father was handing the keys to customers' cars to an 8-year-old?

Well, no, he confessed.

"She didn't know."